The College News
Vol. XVIII, No. 6
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1931
Price, 10 Cents
Special Permission
The Self-Government Board
wishes to stress the fact that it is
necessary for a student to obtain
special permission by going directly
to a member of the board itself,
rather than by obtaining it in-
directly through some one else.
The reason for this is the general
laxity in obtaining permission and
the fact that special permission is
taken for granted in cases where
it would not have been granted
according to Self - Government
rules, but where a third-hand tele-
phone message or a telegram is
wrongly considered sufficient.
Bryn Mawr Receives
French Photographs
Set of Autographed Portraits
Sent 13 Universities As
Good Will Message.
Alumnae Association
Meets in Baltimore
Scholarships, Seven-Year Plan
and Alumnae Affairs
Discussed.
The Council of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation of Bryn Mawr College held its
annual meeting in Baltimore on No-
^�vember 5, 6, and 7. It opened on
Thursday, the 5th, with a luncheon
and business meeting of the Council
at the home of Mrs. James M. Motley,
Bryn Mawr, 1899. The seven District
Councillors, each one elected to rep-
resent one of the seven districts of the
country, reported on the financial
status of their districts, and Mrs. Chad-
wick-Collins, 1905, Director of Publi-
cation, spoke on the Alumnae Register.
Later in the afternoon President Park
spoke at a meeting at the Bryn Mawr
School on "Why Go to College?" Miss
Millicent Cary, 1920, gave a dinner at
the Hamilton Street Club for the
Councillors, the President and Secre-
tary of the association, and the Chair-
men of the Scholarships, Finance, and
Publicity Committees. After dinner a
conference was held on scholarships
and on the Seven-year Plan.
On Friday, the 6th, a meeting of
the Council was held at the home of
Elizabeth Baer, 1930. It began with
discussion of the Regional Scholars,
and the proposal of a ten years' term
of office for Alumnae Directors. A
letter from Doctor Wagoner was read,
and was followed by discussion of stu-
dents' interviews with Doctor Wa-
goner. The nomination of Mrs. H.
Clark for the next President of the
Alumnae Association was announced.
A report was made on College En-
trance Examinations, on the value of
Scholastic Aptitude Tests, and of Miss
Ward's interviews with freshmen.
Mrs. M. R. Cary made a report for
the Alumnae Directors, and the meet-
ing closed with a general discussion
of scholarships and the Seven-year
Plan. At a dinner in her honor at the
City Club, President Park spoke" on
"The Future of the College," stress-
ing particularly its relations with other
colleges.
On Saturday, the 7th, the meeting
was held at the home of Mrs. Donald
R. Hooker, 1901. The Editor of the
Alumnae Bulletin reported on the Bul-
letin and asked for better class notes.
Elizabeth Baer, 1930, as representa-
tive of the last graduating class, spoke
on the great importance of regular
athletics in college; and Alice Har-
denbergh, 1931, as member of this
year's senior class, spoke on the gen-
eral every-day life of Bryn Mawr this
year. Miss Mary Hamilton Swindler,
Ph. D.,-1912, and Professor of Archae-
ology, spoke on Honors Work; Martha
G. Thomas, 1912, on the Alumnae As-
sociations of other colleges, and Mrs.
F. F. Hand, 1897, on our present need
for co-operation with other colleges.
Then followed general' questions from
the members, particularly on ,week-
ends, and on whether Bryn Mawr was,
as a college, taking any steps on the
problem of the World Court. The
Council meeting closed with a lunch-
eon given by Mrs. Hooker.
A gift of 135 Messages Francois to
Bryn Mawr College from M. Edouard
Champion, the well-known Parisian pub-
lisher, and MM. Manuel, art photogra-
phers, has just been announced to Presi-
dent Park by Professor Henri Peyre, of
the French Department of Yale Univer-
sity. Bryn Mawr is one of thirteen uni-
versities designated to receive a complete
set of these photographs representing aj
varied choice of French personalities,
political, diplomatic, literary and artistic.
Each portrait is personally signed and
dedicated by the person represented to the
university which is to receive it. The
donors hope that the autographs and
mottoes will be read and appreciated as
a message of good will to the universities
of America. Premier Laval of France
brought these Messages Francois with
him on the Uc-dc-Franee; he mentioned
the gift and pointed to its significance in
his conversations with President Hoover.
The choice of subjects for the pho-
tographs ranges from Clemenccau, Poin-
care, Marshal Foch, Marshal Lyautey,
Ambassador Jusserand, Ambassador
Claudel, to Bourdelle, Paul Valery,
Andre Maurois, Paul Morand, Jean
Cocteau, etc. It includes mosl of the
members of the French Academy, some
famous women writers, such as Colette
and la Comtesse de Noailles, the greatest
living poets, critics and novelists, a few
outstanding political personalities such as
Barthou, Ed. Hcrriot, A. Tardieu, and
the most eminent French professors of
the Sorbonne and the College de France.
Most of the portraits bear inscriptions
from the hand of Marshal Lyautey, Jus-
serand, Paul Valery, Andre Maurois,
etc.: either short extracts from their
works, words of greeting to the students
of the university, or original thoughts
and maxims.
One portrait of each of the persons
represented was chosen for the excep-
tional interest of its autographed motto,
and was framed and exhibited in Paris
in June, 1929, in the Galerie Mazarine
of the Bibliotheque Nationale. This ex-
hibition was opened by M. Marraud, then
Minister of Public instruction, and the
American Charge1 d'Affaires in Paris. It
was widely commented upon in the Paris
press. A similar exhibition is being
planned in New York, at which Am-
bassador Claudel and the French Consul
General will be present. It will be held
at the French Institute, 22 East Sixtieth
Street, early in December.
Unemployment Relief Chapel
On Friday morning, November 13. a special chapel will be
held in the interests of the United Campaign, combining the Com-
mittee for Unemployment Relief, the Welfare Federation, and the
Federation of Jewish Charities. Miss Park will speak on the drive
� for the Philadelphia District /which has set for itself a goal of
$9,000,000. The college is urged to support the efforts of this triple
charity alliance to help the unemployed during a critical winter.
Large chapel attendance will'show that the students and faculty
feel their responsibility in this matter. .�.
Germantown Defeats
Varsity Hockey, 4-1
Hard-Fought Game Fails to
Dash Hopes of Winning
Swarthmore Match.
CLASS TEAMS BEGIN
Miss Park Speaks on
the Graduate School
Advanced Library and Superior
Faculty Made Possible by
Its Existence.
IS ONE-FIFTH OF BODY
A hard-fought, fast game with the
Germantown Cricket Club on Satur-
day resulted in a 4-to-Ldefeat for Bryn
Mawr Varsity althdygn it in no way
dashed the team's hopes of winning
the Swarthmore game this Thursday.
As individuals the team played its
usual good game with the exception,
perhaps, of Moore and Ullom, who
were not playing their positions with
the reliable accuracy which is char-
acteristic, Collier . took .the ball and
used it in the well-timed defense work
and backing up which has gotten her
the tentative berth on the All-Phila-
delphia team that played Baltimore on
Sunday. Bishop and'McCully played
nice, steady games in the backfield,
while Jackson, at goal, successfully
stopped some hard, clean shots from
the opposing forward line. The team
seems fast and accurate both in in-
dividual stickwork and in passing
when they are in the open field but
as soon as the ball gets near the goal
in either striking circle the teamwork
gets a bit messy and the scoring re-
sults are unsatisfactory. The visiting
team on Saturday was undoubtedly a
hard opposition to break through.
They had several All-American players
in their backfield who were sure and
swift. Remington and Sanborn did
very nicely, Remington managing to
get the ball through McLean's superior
work quite often and Sanborn losing
Continued on Pa*a Flw
Christianity Urged in
Chapel as Cure for World
Chapel was opened Sunday high!
with the processional, a prayer, and
an anthem by the choir: a paraphrase
of the 118th'f*salm. The many parts
in canon-like arrangement were han-
dled skillfully and the shading of the
whole done with feeling. One can-
not overlook the very real contribu-
tion Mr. Willoughby and the choir are
making to the Sunday evening -erv-
ices.
The sermon by the Reverend Louis
Pitt, Rector of Saint Mary's Church in
Ardmore, had as its text the seven-
teenth verse from the tenth chapter of
Mark, and as its theme the question,
"Would not revolutionary Christianity
heal the modern world?" Mr. Pitt
spoke first of the change in attitude
at college sermons since his own fresh-
man days. The Church then was mak-
ing a last stand for the individualistic
Resignation
The News regrets to announce
the resignation of Anna Martin
Findley from the Editorial Board.
type of religion, while the modern ser-
mon is asking "Have you the courage
to use the standards of, Jesus in your
life?" Christianity was started as a
revolutionary movement and continued
as such for four hundred years dur-
Opening for Ambitious
Lies in Advertising Field
()ne would judge from the gather-
ing in 'the Common Room on last
Tuesday afternoon that there are quite
a few undergraduates who are at least
partially interested in becoming adver-
tisers. Miss Hupfel's tea for Mrs.
Nicholas Murray was not only a social
success but also a satisfactory means of
instruction to the aforementioned stu-
dents. It would be a stretch of the
imagination to say that Mrs. Murray
encourages the new \\ -graduated stu-
dent to rush headlong into the adver-
tising business but if one ^proceeds
gingerly there seems to he quite a
profitable opening for the ambitious in
that line.
Preparation in the form of econom-
ics courses and post-graduate work will
always be of service to the would-be
advertising agent while shorthand and
typewriting are most essential. Mr>,
Murray tells of the five secretaries she
has had in the last seven years, four
of whom are now copyright editors and
one of whom is now head of an Aus-
tralian office of J. Walter Thompson,
the firm for which Mrs. Murray works.
The mention of the $150 a week salary
of the copy-cub sounded quite entic-
ing to the povprty-strirlffn imrlfri^r-j.!
Rafael Sabatini Speaks
on History and Fiction
Ap event of special interest next
week will He the appearance of Rafael
Sabatini. This celebrated author of
romantic and historic novels is to
speak in Goodhart Auditorium on
Monday, November 16. at 8:20. His
subject will be "Fiction in History and
History in Fiction."
'Many people will be eager to see
and hear this writer of thrilling stories,
such as "Scaramouche" and the "Sea
Hawk." which have been read by mil-
lions throughout the world and seen
by as many millions in the. motion pic-
ture versions. Mr. Sabatini, more-
over, is well qualified ""o speak on the
topic he has selected, for he has been
writing historic novels for the last
twenty-five years ami is a recognized
authority____�,--------��' �
Partly because of his mixed English
and Italian descent this versatile author
showed evidences of great ability even
in his youth. At the age of eighteen
he could speak and write five lan-
guages fluently, while his educational
attainments were remarkable in every
way. Destined at first for a mercantile
career in Liverpool, he abandoned that
career after the success of his tir>t
short stories and started out to become
a novelist. Years of hard work wen
required to win recognition, but at last
he became famous through the pub-
lication of his romances.
In recent years Mr. Sabatini has
been turning out novel after novel.
each displaying the same marks of
talent and bringing him increased
fame. Probably one explanation is
that he is a deep student, his research
is thorough and he pays attention even
to the smallest details. His English.
is good, swift and clear. Because of
his creative imagination he has been
termed the modem Dumas.
Completely unspoiled by success, a
quiet, cultured gentleman. Mr. Saba-
tini is certain to make a deep impres-
sion on his audience. Half English
in descent, he has lived in England
since his youth" and is a British sub-
ject. He is also EnglishMn appear-
ance, being fair-haired and athletic.
A- a speaker he excels, at fact which
will be evident to all who have the
privilege of hearing him lecture. He
i- returning to England next month
after a very brief visit to this country,
and we feel fortunate in ouroppoi>|
(unity of having him at Bryn Mawr.
On Tuesday, November 3, President
Park spoke in chapel on the composi-
tion of the Bryn Mawr Graduate
School. Although some people go
through school, college, and graduate
school in the place where they were
born. President Park said, ordinarily a
student migrates between school and
college because of courses she wants,
family preference or school current. A
student going into graduate work must
consider the scholarship or fellowship
offered which is to pay at least part
of her way, and she also has new col-
leges open to her which were closed
for undergraduate study, such as Johns
Hopkins and Yale, while Bryn Mawr
and Radcliffe are the only women's col-
leges that have-graduate courses for a
Ph.D. The Bryn Mawr Graduate School
l>cgan the same day as the undergraduate
department, having eight out of the
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first years torty-toiir students.
It still
keeps the same proportion, one-fifth ojf^,
the whole college. It is a small num-
ber but out of it one hundred and
thirty-three women have had the de-
gree of Doctor of Philosophy. Only a
few candidates for a Ph. D. have,
worked all four years at Bryn Mawr,
usually one or two years are spent in
an American or foreign university, and
many students come ^iere for a year
or two and go back to their university
to take their degree.
This year the one hundred freshmen
come from seventy-one different
schools, and the one hundred and six
graduate students have B. A. or B. S.
degrees from fifty-six American, Cana-
dian, and European colleges, forty of
which are coeducational, thirteen
women's colleges, two women's col-
leges affiliated with universities, and
one is a men's college. The number
of students from women's colleges al-
most equals the number from coedu-
cational colleges although the number
of universities represented is three
Contlaord on Pagr Tlir.i-
In the New Book Room
(Contributed by the Undergraduate
Member of the Xete Bonk Room
Committee)
The New Book Room has taken on a
new lease of life. Fresh labels have at
last relegated the formidable rows of
decidedly "departmental" new Ixioks to a
section of their own. The vari-colored
and truly new fall books are already
appearing to fill the gap, and a perma-
nent set of Tchekov will soon add dignity
to the collection.
Further encouragement to the student
of leisure is the institution of a shelf
"For Browsers," a shelf recommended
-llast y�ar and nuw s�t up by Dr,
uatc also.
The advertising and the publicity de-
partments of a firm are entirely differ-
ent things.' If you are clever enougTi
to write advertising propaganda .so a
newspaper will run it as an itom�and
ing which time it conquered the Roman i newspapefs are suspicious�then you
world. Since that time it has lost
its virility and become conventional.
In the words of Canon Streator: the
greatest blot on the modern church is
that most of the great leaders of re-
Contlaaed on Pace **!��
are a publicity agent: advertisers pay
for what they get. In the actual ad-
vertising department there is the copy
work and the medium work. The lat-
ter has to deal with the buying of
CaaUaaed �� Pa*� Thrco
At the moment, the well-worn look of
Barchcster Toilers. Galleons Reach, The
Man in the Zoo and their fellows is al-
most more inviting than the bright ap-
pearance of the newcomers. The conten�s
of this shelf will be renewed fortnightly
at the suggestion of anyone interested
in the New Book Room.
In spite of these changes the policy of
the New Book Room remains the same.
Its function is to secure current books
that will prove of permanent value in the
college library.
Graduate Student from
Spain Likes America
Miss Manuela Goiizales Alvargonzalez,
one of the five European graduate stu-
dents of this year, is studying organic
and physical chemistry. She told us
that she had l>een working at the uni-
versity in Madrid, where she obtained
her lieenciatura in chemistry, when she
heard of Bryn Mawr through a friend
who was a graduate student here. She
applied for a scholarship at the Institute
of Exchange and at the end of August
found herself bound for America�her
first visit. At the mention of New York
she exclaimed. "Oh. es magnifica!" She
found the Museum of Natural History
especially interesting. "All the animals
are *y)ife-likc." In New York, how-
ever, she finds too much "movement"
and excitement, and she does not think
she could ever liecome used to it.
�Her life at Bryn Mawr she enjoys
tremendously. She likes the campus,
the social lift�and the work. She thinks
that here people work harder; this she
gathers from the fact that they are given
more to do. As a result, there does not
to be Inuth time tor outside inter-
ests, such as literature for a student of
science.
Miss Alvargonzalez was in Spain at
the time of the revolution, with which
she is in sympathy. It is a good thing
for Spain, she said, because <the people
arc republicans, not monarchists. With
the change in government came the sep-
aration of church and state; divorce is
now recognized. One of the most impor-
tant innovations is the granting of the
suffrage to women, and the establishment
or more than 30,000 new schools.